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Old 09-29-2006, 05:36 PM   #7
Lacy's Mom
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Since you obvioiusly care so much about your dogs I would strongly recommend you get them on a quality dry food when you can. The line up of ingredients in Beneful rank it as one of the worst dog foods, Mighty Dog isn't much better. Skip the department stores and grocery stores and find a good food in a pet store. They will eat less, have less stools, less gas, and fewer vet bills. To look for a quality dry food, look at the first five ingredients. Look for a meat for at least the first ingredient, no by products (this is the intestines, feet, beaks, unconsumable parts left over from human use) and no corn. Ingredients are listed by weight, but Purina is tricky here by having ground corn and corn gluten meal, just so they could at least list chicken by product as the second ingredient.

Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), rice flour, beef, soy flour, sugar, sorbitol, tricalcium phosphate, water, animal digest, salt, phosphoric acid, potassium chloride, dicalcium phosphate, sorbic acid (a preservative), L-Lysine monohydrochloride, dried peas, dried carrots, calcium carbonate, calcium propionate (a preservative), choline chloride, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), added color (Yellow 5, Red 40, Yellow 6, Blue 2), DL-Methionine, zinc sulfate, glyceryl monostearate, ferrous sulfate, niacin, manganese sulfate, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement, biotin, thiamine mononitrate, garlic oil, copper sulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, sodium selenite.
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Here's a link to compare dog foods - Beneful scores a 1 out of 9, just because it contains vegetables.
http://www.healthypetnet.com/Healthy...266&hdr=&cat=0
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